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| The Investigation |
| Feds investigating Jordan link |
| 2001-09-18 |
Federal investigators are examining a possible link between the hijackers who crashed into the World Trade Center and operatives for Osama bin Laden who plotted to kill hundreds of Americans and other tourists in Jordan on Jan. 1, 2000, officials said yesterday. Two of the suspected hijackers, Ahmed al-Ghamdi and Satam al-Suqami, have been identified by federal agents as being tied to a former Boston cab driver who is now on trial as a suspected ringleader of the millennium bomb plot, which was foiled by the Jordanian authorities. Federal officials would not discuss the nature of the ties between the hijackers and Raed Hijazi, other than to say that all three of them shared a relationship with a suspected operative for Mr. bin Laden who also lived for a time in the Boston area. That man, Nabil al Marabh, 34, had been linked to Mr. al-Ghamdi and Mr. al-Suqami as part of an earlier investigation by the United States Customs Service. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |